Jerod, this one is for you.

Lots of meanings, a progressive piece in my journal that won't look like this in a few weeks. Altered art chaos.

This was a canvas I found at the thrift store 3 days ago. It was started with the blue grid, brown background and wrapping paper on the sides. I guess whoever started it didn't like it. So I bought it. And painted it. And found a bunch of vintage flower pins to add to it. I have no idea how I will get this home.

Just some chaos art. Seems to be my theme. All for now. Off to play...

After renovations...

Thought I would take a look at the local real estate. Wouldn't it be cool to have a place to 'get away'? I think I could afford this. Here's what it looks like now...

Well, if I miss my flight home, at least I know I can find work here...

This is a solvent transfer with pastels and pencils. One of my favorite photographs and favorite restaurants.

First, this is not my art. I've been shopping at thrift stores a lot since I've been gone. (I had to ship a few boxes home...) Everytime I go into a thrift store, people ask, "...are you from Arrowmont?" So I'm like, "What's an Arrowmont?" It's an arts and crafts school. So I went there. Cool place! Anyway, I found this...

Well, here I am by myself. People back home are making bets on how quickly I'll go insane spending time alone. Well, here are some random vacation... updates, tips & weirdness: 1. It's not really the middle of nowhere if you're reading this because I have an Internet connection. 2. My biggest challenge is not to drop the hot tub cover off the side of the balcony. 3. There's more than one Tidy Bowl man and they all live in Putt-putt golf courses. 4. God has His hand under all airplanes. 5. I painted my laptop. 6. I sketched and painted a normal picture. I didn't upload it. It's normal. No one would believe I created it. Miss everyone!!! j3

Here's a preview of my latest finds. Great thrift stores out in the middle of nowhere! And Angela, I have your house key. You just don't find cool stuff like this in Texas.

getting away from it all was exactly what I needed! Reconnect with God. Been needing to do that for a while. Here's my art around that thoguht...

Yes! I finally did it. I started customizing my laptop. I did a solvent transfer onto the metal (I can't believe it worked either!) and colored it with oil pencils. I'm not done yet, but here it is so far...

Wow, this is so cool. A vacation. Just me and God. In the mountains where nobody can find me. I have so much time to create art and just journal and play. Cool.